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Summary

Description

1893. 2-storey public house and flat on corner site with polygonal corner tower. Red fire bricks with contrasting rusticated sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course, 1st floor and eaves cornices. Moulded cills; basket-arched openings to ground floor; corbel; stone mullions.

N (CORNER) ELEVATION: canted angle with 2-leaf timber door below corbel to cornice, 1st floor with 3-light canted window, deep blocking course and terracotta-finialled polygonal turret.

NW (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: 4-bay elevation with panelled timber door and blocked fanlight to left of centre, 3-light window to outer left and bipartite window to right, further panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight to outer right. 1st floor with bipartite window to left of centre, window to outer left and further bipartite to outer right, wallhead stack to right of centre.

NE (WEMYSS PLACE) ELEVATION: 2 windows to ground floor, that to centre with etched glass 'WINES & SPIRITS', and panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight in bay to left; 2 bipartite windows to 1st floor and 2 wallhead stacks.

Non-traditional uPVC windows to 1st floor. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with ashlar-coped skews and moulded skewputt to NE.

INTERIOR: part-glazed panelled timber doors to bar. Decorative plasterwork cornices, boarded dadoes, timber panelling, curved bar and gantry (see Notes).

Statement of Special Interest

Bar interior has been carefully restored to near original design from memories of local people. Although the modern windows at 1st floor reduce the impact of this colourful and conspicuous corner tenement, it retains a significant place in the architecture of Lower Methil, with fully appropriate decorative scheme to the public house.

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